I'm looking to make the move to a new web hosting plan, but there seems to be quite a variation in price for what appears to be near-identical plans-- what am I missing here?

FYI, I have a small site running UBB Classic that could fit more than comfortably on 500MB, but would love 1000MB, I get on average about 40k pageviews/month. I'd like something running Linux w/ shell access.

Reading through the previous posts, people have good things to say about digital.Princeton.

I had been considering going with 100 megs advanced plan, which looks identicle to d.P's comparable plan, except it has 20GB bandwith compared with d.P's 25GB, and most importantly: 100 meg's plan costs 1/3 less per month.

I know the old maxim: you get what you pay for. Still, for a website as small as mine, am I really going to notice a difference if I go with the cheaper plan? Price is a consideration; my decision has to be between a 1000MB plan through a less-expensive host, or a 500MB plan through a more-expense, perhaps more support/reliability host.

Thanks for your feedback!

how expert are you with web servers? do you knwo how to configure them etc. or do you want a control panel to configure your website?

have you tried checking http://www.eryxma.com ?

I would need a control panel, as I'm pretty much novice with web servers. My site is a hobby site-- mostly html, except for the UBB forums. I'm looking for a virtual server, not a shared one.

I checked eryxma; but I've read some reviews about them that were less-than-pleasant, so I'm still keeping my ears open.

I love Digital Princeton and a lot of my members are using them as well. They (Steve Klenert) love UBB so you won't get any nasty surprises like you site being turned off for resource abuse.

Time to push Gizzy's favourite company, seeing as he hasn't done it yet...

According to several members here, Hostnuke have a very good reputation in the UBB-hosting area too. 150MB disk space and 5GB bandwidth for $9.99/month, which is very good value for people on a fairly tight budget like myself. They also support UBB, unlike many hosts these days...

Actually, HostNuke does have some great prices, and excelent features... They also have a great staff (and I'm not just saying that cas I'm now a part of it)...

Thanks for the input, guys; now I know where to start looking.